Long term impacts of combined sewer overflow remediation on water quality and population dynamics of Culex quinquefasciatus, the main urban West Nile virus vector in Atlanta, GA

Environmental Research

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-26

  Lund, Andrea ^a   McMillan, Joseph ^a   Kelly, Rosmarie ^b   Jabbarzadeh, Shirin ^a   Mead, Daniel G ^c   Burkot, Thomas R ^d   Kitron, Uriel ^a,e   Vazquez Prokopec, Gonzalo M ^a,e  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Culex quinquefasciatus; Risk factors; Urban pollution; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; PHOSPHATE; VIRUS VECTOR;

AMMONIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MOSQUITO; NITRATE; PHOSPHATE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINFALL; REMEDIATION; RISK FACTOR; SEWER NETWORK; URBAN POLLUTION; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATER TREATMENT; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; IMMATURE MOSQUITOE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; LARVA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MACROINVERTEBRATE; MOSQUITO POPULATION; MOSQUITO PRODUCTIVITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWER OVERFLOW REMEDIATION; SPECIES COMPOSITION; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS VECTOR;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

ARBOVIRUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POLLUTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; CULEX; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GEORGIA; INSECT VECTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOSQUITO CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEWAGE; URBAN POPULATION; WATER QUALITY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84893179671     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2013.12.008     Document Type: Article

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